Example sentences of "had a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lunched amicably with Glastonbury and Chatterton , dined civilly with Fagg and Fishbane , and even had a seemingly friendly tête-à-tête with the Commander on Wednesday afternoon . |
| 2 | But although he had a seemingly endless supply of small talk , he asked no questions and Patrick wondered how much he knew . |
| 3 | Wallace had a seemingly good goal disallowed when Strachan was adjudged to be offside though there was an Oldham defender on the goal line when the shot was taken . |
| 4 | ‘ Message had a mildly urgent ring . ’ |
| 5 | She had a heavily lined face , a prominent , almost hawk-like nose , but she had kindly eyes and every so often she would display a vein of sharp humour that suggested her family had to keep their shoes clean when they approached her little parlour . |
| 6 | She had a little pug-like dog who wore an expression of perpetual outrage , its eyes bulging as though someone had just said something unforgivable to it . |
| 7 | When they were little they had a little artificial tree and put out their stockings on Christmas Eve . |
| 8 | The well had a little wooden roof over it and a simple winding device and there was the rope dangling down into a dark bottomless hole . |
| 9 | The same blond hair , except that Tessa Latham 's was a little longer , had a little more curl . |
| 10 | He had a little more scope in the military arena , which was a second area of conflict with the Allies . |
| 11 | He had a little more respect here . |
| 12 | When he wrote to the Prince of Canino five months later he had a little more time to describe the achievements of his two years ‘ in the wilds of Australia ’ : |
| 13 | Officers in the major craft — the LCTs and LCIs ( see Appendix 4 ) — had a little more training but not very much : navigation is a science not learnt in a four-week course . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , a totally one-sided match had a deceptively close scoreline that temporarily upset Scotland and caused them to look confused as half time arrived . |
| 15 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 16 | Guy 's low voice had a hypnotic quality which had a strangely calming effect on Lucy , but even so Virginia had an appalling fear that everything was going to be far from all right . |
| 17 | The Bolivian authorities stressed that the US personnel had a strictly advisory capacity ; training of specialized units of the Bolivian army was to consist of two 10-week courses , each concluding with field exercises . |
| 18 | Although he had a reasonably good idea of what went on between men and women , so far he had never even kissed a girl . |
| 19 | No we had a reasonably good dinner and , and we did n't want no tea when we come home , this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we 'd have a bowl of soup , erm , we stuffed ourselves , we had toast and breakfast erm , we had one or two sweets in the hospital , er while we were waiting and then er , we went to Asda and then we got er |
| 20 | Until 1991 the Parish Council had a reasonably good arrangement with the NatWest bank with a small current account being topped up as necessary from an interest-earning deposit account , an arrangement made several years ago when I first became Parish Council clerk . |
| 21 | Bored and lonely , yes , but I had a reasonably pleasant time of things all the same . |
| 22 | This literature had a reasonably wide circulation . |
| 23 | Although the initiators had a reasonably clear idea of what they wished to achieve and of the means by which this might be pursued , the fine detail could only be thrashed out as the project proceeded . |
| 24 | The Allied forces had a reasonably clear idea of the dispositions of Baghdad 's forces , while Saddam 's intelligence was less complete . |
| 25 | ‘ We had a reasonably amicable relationship , ’ he says . |
| 26 | It had a newly thatched roof and was enclosed inside a privet hedge . |
| 27 | The BBC was influential in the setting up of broadcasting in no fewer than seventeen African countries , and the French had a similarly extensive involvement . |
| 28 | Neither the authorship nor the commission were known to Sotheby 's then , and it too had a similarly low estimate . |
| 29 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
| 30 | To its left the church of La Compañia de Jesus , built in the late seventeenth century on the site of the Palace of Serpents , had a similarly ornate façade . |